What does love feel like?

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I know what family love feels like from my parents how they raised me, but outside the family for like a relationship I have no idea. No interest in finding out at the time either.

I also experience the same thing whenever people are trying to be affectionate towards me I don't even understand it and I don't react mostly because I always have no idea how to react to those kind of stuff but I can't say I've never exprienced 'love' I at least exprienced it as a child because I remember loving my cousin so much and crying on his death even though it took me time to realize the death but I cried a little after realizing and still got sad about that death for the rest of my life,, this is the deepest emotion I've ever had in my opinion.

love has different guises, not all of them immediately warm and fuzzy. the mother who stays up all night comforting her ailing child, expresses love which, if the child could feel it, would feel akin to the palpable warmth I felt when I took my late mother's ashes to the cemetery, it just descended upon me suddenly and wrapped all around me, and was very comforting.

I know I love my cat because when I think that one day she will get old and die and that I will have to live without her it makes my chest tight and hurt and the same thing happens when I think about losing my mom and that's how I know I love them. Other than that...I've never romantically loved someone. I've had crushes like 'oh wow, that man is very nice looking and I would love to hug him and maybe be special to him' but past that...nothing

Love is having among your top priorities the well-being and happiness of another living creature. It means that their happiness brings you satisfaction and that you act in ways that benefit them, and that even when you don't feel emotionally connected, you still persist in making decisions with their interests in mind.

I've thought about it some, and I think that by this definition it is actually possible to love people who never do anything but annoy you--or people you have never even met.

There are other words that can be used to describe related things--words like "passion", the dizzy-headed emotional and erotic connection to a new partner; "fondness", the warm feeling that one has for someone they feel comfortable with and consider a friend; or "duty" (to family, friends, or community), the decision work to benefit someone else even when doing so brings you no satisfaction. There's the parent-child bond that includes a lot of protectiveness and a good deal of identifying the child as very nearly part of oneself, which is heavily rooted in the instinct to care for one's young.

But love, in general, is more than an emotion--if it were only an emotion, then all you'd have to do to stop loving someone is to get upset with them. Love is more of a long-term behavioral pattern, a conscious or subconscious decision, or a habit--perhaps even a way of life.

Robin William, in Bicentennial Man:

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For me it's a warm and fuzzy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

After reading everyone's posts on this subject. I wonder if autistic people can comprehend what love really is. I had some deep thoughts about this myself and I even question myself if I know that love really is. That's a tough one to answer.

You'll know it when you feel it. It's mostly a chemical blend released by your brain that usually last 3 or 4 years. I didn't feel it until I was 30 and had my second baby. I was so in love with him I loved everyone else, too and the world seemed a better place.

Sometimes love can cause upset stomach, insomnia or irrational behaviors. It's those chemicals at work.